Thanksgiving at home away from "home"

This is our first Thanksgiving in Seattle. In the past although we lived away from Ithaca for many years, we would always make it back for a huge Thanksgiving feast. This time we are a bit further away so we decided to stay put and instead invite over a friend, who also originally hails from the East Coast. We did cook but it was on a smaller scale - Cornish game hens instead of a big turkey but still plenty of dishes, including yams, mashed potatoes, cornbread stuffing and a wonderful (don't mind if I say so myself!) home made apple strussel, made by yours truly. All this with a wonderful bottle of Beaujolais Nouveau.

The day after the big meal we enjoyed a much needed walk in Discovery Park in Seattle's Magnolia neigborhood. It is a wonderful secluded and tranquil space and although our adventure started off breezy and cloudy, while we were walking over the meadow lands and along the magnificant sea cliffs with bluffs overlooking the Puget Sound, the clouds parted providing a spectacular view of the Olympic Mountain range in the distance. We descended down to the beach through the forest groves and walked along the water's edge, thorugh the sand dunes, out to the tip of the little penninsula with a charming lighthouse, then circling around the other end and back up the steep cliffs with lush vegetation.